Technosystem : : The Social Life of Reason / / Andrew Feenberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Feenberg, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.) :; 2 halftones, 3 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction: Technology and Human Finitude --; Method --; 1. Marx after Foucault --; 2. Critical Constructivism --; 3. Concretizing Simondon and Constructivism --; Application --; 4. The Internet in Question --; Theory --; 5. Reason and Experience in the Age of the Technosystem --; 6. The Concept of Function in Critical Constructivism --; 7. The Logic of Protest --; Conclusion: The Question of Progress --; Notes --; Name Index --; Subject Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674982109; 9783110543315
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674982109
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Feenberg.

We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by technically trained personnel—a unique social organization that largely determines our way of life. Andrew Feenberg’s theory of social rationality represents both the threats of technocratic modernity and the potential for democratic change.